2012 Western Athletic Conference football season

The 2012 Western Athletic Conference football season was the 51st and final college football season for the Western Athletic Conference in the top level of NCAA football, known since 2006 as Division I FBS. Seven teams competed in the 2012 season: Idaho, Louisiana Tech, New Mexico State, San Jose State, Texas State, Utah State, and UTSA. Utah State went undefeated against its conference opponents to become, at the time, the final WAC conference champion. It was also chosen to represent the WAC in one of its two bowl berths; conference runner-up San Jose State was chosen to fill the conference's other bowl berth.

2012 WAC football season
LeagueNCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
SportFootball
DurationAugust 30, 2012
through December 27, 2012
Number of teams7
TV partner(s)ESPN
2013 NFL Draft
Top draft pickCB Will Davis, USU
Picked byMiami Dolphins, 93rd overall
Regular Season
ChampionsUtah State
Season MVPQB Colby Cameron, La. Tech
DL Travis Johnson, SJSU
2012 Western Athletic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 16 Utah State $  6 –0     11 –2  
No. 21 San Jose State  5 –1     11 –2  
Louisiana Tech  4 –2     9 –3  
UTSA *  3 –3     8 –4  
Texas State *  2 –4     4 –8  
Idaho  1 –5     1 –11  
New Mexico State  0 –6     1 –11  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • * Texas State and UTSA were not eligible for conference title or bowl games as part of their transition to the FBS.
Rankings from AP Poll

Due to a major wave of departures that hit the WAC hard over the previous three seasons, the 2012 WAC football season marked what was at that time the conference's final season sponsoring football. Before the season began, San Jose State and Utah State announced they would be leaving to join several other former WAC schools in the Mountain West Conference. Louisiana Tech and UTSA joined several other schools in moving to Conference USA after the season, which also contains several former WAC members. Texas State moved to the Sun Belt Conference. Idaho and New Mexico State joined Notre Dame, Army, Navy, and BYU as FBS independents for 2013 before becoming Sun Belt football-only members in 2014 (Idaho left the WAC entirely as part of the realignment; while electing to keep their football team as a Bowl Subdivision member, the Vandals returned to the Big Sky Conference for other sports).

The WAC will reinstate football in the fall 2021 season, but at the second level of NCAA football, Division I FCS. For more information on the revival of WAC football, see the section of the main conference page that discusses this development.

Previous season
Main article: 2011 Western Athletic Conference football season

Rankings
See also: 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings
Legend
    Improvement in ranking
  Drop in ranking
  Not ranked previous week
RV Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25 of poll
Ranking Movement
 PreWk
1		Wk
2		Wk
3		Wk
4		Wk
5		Wk
6		Wk
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8		Wk
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10		Wk
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12		Wk
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14		Final
Idaho
Vandals		 AP
C
HAR Not released
BCS Not released
Louisiana Tech
Bulldogs		 AP RV RV RV 23 RV 24 22 19 19 RV
C RV RV RV RV RV RV 24 RV RV 23 18 19 RV RV RV RV
HAR Not released 24 RV RV 24 19 20 RV RV RV
BCS Not released 25 20 20
New Mexico State
Aggies		 AP
C
HAR Not released
BCS Not released
San Jose State
Spartans		 AP RV RV RV 24 21
C RV RV RV RV RV RV 24 21
HAR Not released RV RV RV RV RV
BCS Not released 25 24
Texas State
Bobcats		 AP RV
C
HAR Not released
BCS Not released
Utah State
Aggies		 AP RV RV RV RV 25 20 18 16
C RV RV RV RV 22 20 17
HAR Not released RV RV RV RV 22 21
BCS Not released 24 22
UTSA
Roadrunners		 AP
C
HAR Not released
BCS Not released

Regular season
Index to colors and formatting
WAC member won
WAC member lost
WAC teams in bold

Week One
DateTimeVisiting teamHome teamSiteTVResultAttendance
August 30 6:00 pm Southern Utah Utah State Romney Stadium • Logan, UT KMYU/ESPN3 W USU 34-3   17,009
August 30 6:00 pm No. 12 (FCS) Eastern Washington Idaho Kibbie Dome • Moscow, ID ESPN3 L EWU 20-3   11,136
August 30 6:00 pm Sacramento State New Mexico State Aggie Memorial Stadium • Las Cruces, NM ESPN3 W NMSU 49-19   12,118
August 31 7:00 pm San Jose State No. 21 Stanford Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA P12N L Stan 20-17   40,577
September 1 1:00 pm UTSA South Alabama Ladd–Peebles Stadium • Mobile, AL ESPN3 W UTSA 33-31   17,144
September 1 7:00 pm Texas State Houston Robertson Stadium • Houston, TX CSS W UH 30-13   32,207
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game.

Week Two
DateTimeVisiting teamHome teamSiteTVResultAttendance
September 8 6:00 pm Louisiana Tech Houston Robertson Stadium • Houston, TX CBSSN W LT 56-49   29,142
#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game.

Bowl games
Bowl Game Date Site Television Time (EST) Visiting Team Home Team Score Attendance
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl December 15 Bronco Stadium * Boise, ID ESPN 4:30 p.m. Toledo Utah State 15-41 29,243
Military Bowl December 27 RFK Stadium * Washington, D.C. ESPN 3:00 p.m. San Jose State Bowling Green 29-20 17,835

Home attendance
Team Stadium (Capacity) Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5 Game 6 Total Average % of Capacity
Idaho Kibbie Dome (16,000) 11,136 13,558 14,755
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Louisiana Tech Joe Aillet Stadium (30,600) 23,228 21,850 40,453A 20,255 23,645 25,614
New Mexico State Aggie Memorial Stadium (30,343) 12,118 25,211 14,341 12,118
San Jose State Spartan Stadium (30,456) 7,462 7,189 15,168 7,093 15,494
Texas State Bobcat Stadium (30,000) 33,006 17,188 14,210 16,973
Utah State Romney Stadium (25,513) 17,009 25,513 24,226 17,001
UTSA Alamodome (65,000) 30,416 25,742 30,862 23,519 25,784 39,032

^A Louisiana Tech's home game against Texas A&M was played at the 49,427-seat Independence Stadium in Shreveport.

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